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Steel construction industry provides efficient long span and limited weight structural frame for a huge
industrial hall that will produce the A380 Airbus airplane of next generation for intercontinental
flights.
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Case study : Social collective residential building, Evreux
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Client: EADS
Architect: ADPI
Design office Cooperation : ADPI and Jaillet Rouby
Contractor: URSSA (Spain), CIMOLIA (Italy), CASTEL et
FROMAGET, JOSEPH PARIS, RICHARD DUCROS
(France), BUICK (Belgium)
Control Office SOCOTEC and VERITAS
Application Benefits Flexib ility of space organisation
Fast track construction Sustainability approach
Intensive use of steel components Structural strength
Internal view during construction. External view during erection of hall S34: 100 x 100 m.
Personage at the ground level Building on the back gives scale size.
gives scale size
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SHOPPING CENTRE CACTUS
IN ESCH/ALZETTE
Case study : Shopping Centre Cactus in Esch/Alzette
This urban project in the city centre of Esch/Alzette provides a modern vision of steel structure using
curved cellular beams with glazed faade. The luminosity inside this building highlights the lightness
of visible steel structure. This visible and aesthetic steel solution was obtained due to modern fire
engineering approach.
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Case study : Shopping Centre Cactus in Esch/Alzette
BEC is the new Exhibition Centre in Bilbao, Spain. The exhibition centre has a floor area of 117 000
square metres, in 6 halls. The halls have no internal columns or supports, thanks to steel lattice girders
in the roof. Concerning fire safety, performance based rules were applied with the result that some
parts of the structures stay unprotected.
Aerial view
BEC is an initiative designed to offer the best The concrete walls are covered with a steel
possible service for exhibitors, visitors and the skin to prevent an aggressive impact of the
general public in a modern, convenient, building with the surrounding landscape
practical and highly functional trade fair
The loads are specified by the National Annex
facility.
NBE-AE-88. The magnitude of loads depends
1. Construction Details on the use of each area:
Structure - Car parks use load: 400kg/m
- Lorries accesses: 4000kg/m (national
The project consists of 111000m of exhibition
regulation: 1000kg/m)
area in 6 halls: the Arena hall (30000m) ,
- Hall areas: 4000kg/m
the medium hall (21000m) and the small
halls (4x15000m). The exhibition halls are - Pedestrian zones and accesses: 400kg/m
free of columns. 24300 tons of steel for the - Office areas: 300kg/m
structure of the halls and 19200 tons of - Restaurants: 300kg/m
- Roof (only for maintenance purposes):
corrugated steel in the foundations were used.
100kg/m
The box trussed beams of the halls are 125 to
These loads are supported in the different areas
167m long. The roof tubular spatial structure
with the following structural elements:
consists of 60 panels (37x37m).
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Case study : Exhibition Centre, Bilbao
Hall structure
The columns are of reinforced concrete. The
box beams are composed of four trussed beams
Plan drawing of BEC
and are made of structural steel.
Construction Time:
Initiation : September 2001
Inauguration: April 2004
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GIRA PRODUCTION HALL
RADEVORMWALD
Case study : GIRA Industrial Building, Radevormwald
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Concept and realisation of this architecturally appealing production building allows the integration of
the complex services as well as the manufacturing technology under consideration of maximum flexi-
bility.
As a design-conscious manufacturer of electri- The design of these two of four possible, three-
cal components, the GIRA company makes storey halls was based on a comprehensive
high demands on technology and design as analysis of production processes, flow of
well as the architecture. In the course of the goods and general logistics. The existing pro-
development plan of their premises they real- duction buildings are tied on ground level. The
ised the first two of four possible production production concept can be successively
units with a floor space of approx. 20,000 m changed, adapted and expanded.
in total.
The basements offer break rooms, energy sup-
The new production and office development ply, buildings services, computing department
comprises two virtually identical halls each and a storage for tools. The ground floors con-
71.5 x 22.5 m on plan and linked on their long tain the production unit; open-plan bureaus,
faces by two staircases. The design of a glazed single offices, laboratories, tool production as
factory called for a clearly articulated, sle n- well as technical assets are located in the upper
derly dimensioned structure in which complex storeys. This concept provides closely linked
mechanical services and production plant workplaces of equal quality in all departments.
including lifting equipment, fork-lift trucks and
An ingenious concept for the mechanical ser-
unmanned transport systems had to be flexi-
vices allows natural ventilation via the facades
bly integrated. With their curved roofs, raking
and exploits excess energy from the production
facades and rounded glazed eaves, the build-
process.
ings have a distinctive form that makes its own
contribution to the firms strongly advocated
concept of corporate identity.
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Case study : GIRA Industrial Building, Radevormwald
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Construction details
The static and constructive optimisation of the beams by tension rods. Diverse crane tracks
concept led to an inner structure as composite are directly connected; for buildings services
construction with an encasing outer curved numerous openings in the beams are provided.
structure for the building envelope. The use of Fire protection
two structures has multiple advantages: On the The holistic fire protection concept follows the
one hand the curved outer structure is kept buildings functions: in the basement R120 to
slender and ele gant due to its interaction with protect the precious for m-storage; the ground
the inner one; this is also a benefit for the ap- level R90 by applying concrete filled sections;
pearance of the hall in the surrounding land- in the upper storey a R30-coating for the steel
scape. On the other hand the outer structure, frames. In addition to that sprinklers are pro-
besides being a load-bearing element, is fa- vided for the whole building.
ade, roof, ventilation and water-bearing ele-
Faade and building services
ment.
Maximum transparency, efficient sun-shading,
Outer structure in steel natural ventilation of offices and production
The outer load bearing structure which sup- units and a highly economical form of con-
ports the roof and the faade consists of dou- struction were the conditions for the faade
ble-hinged frames with rigidly linked columns design. The size of the RHS profiles are kept to
and rails. The frames are made of welded hol- a minimum, thereby accentuating the impres-
low sections with overlying purlins as rolled I- sion of transparency. The central aspect of the
sections and roofing made of profiled sheeting. design for GIRA was the minimisation of pr i-
The structure is stiffened by the frames as well mary energy consumption. The energy recov-
as concrete cores. erable from the production can help to achieve
Inner structure as composite construction a 60% saving of heating energy costs. All areas
For the inner structure supporting the upper are primarily ventilated naturally and a com-
storey a composite construction was chosen, bined heating and cooling system was devel-
consisting of rocker columns and hinged sin- oped into which the existing thermal potential
gle-span beams. The ground floor is a slender could be fed.
slimfloor slab; the upper floor is made of partly Pictures: H. G. Esch, Hennef
precast planks as a composite construction in
combination with welded I-beams (1060 x 300
mm) and hot-rolled HEB 400 columns. Inter-
mediate floors are attached to the composite
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